User Guide
To train a user pattern:
1. Start Train user pattern mode by clicking the Train user pattern radio
button on the Recognition tab, Tools>Options menu, in the Training
group. The default pattern name (“Default”) will be displayed in the status
line.
2. Click the 2–Read button.
3. Train your pattern by recognizing one or more pages in Train user pattern
mode. Trained characters are saved in the default pattern. Once you have
completed training the pattern, ABBYY FineReader will save the pattern
(Default.ptn) in the current batch folder
4. Edit your pattern.
5. Deactivate the training mode (click Use user pattern on the Recognition
tab).
6. Recognize the rest of the text by clicking the 2Read button.
Note:
1. To create several patterns for the same batch, use the Pattern Editor dialog
(click the Pattern Editor button on the Recognition tab or select the
Tools>Pattern Editor menu item). Create a new pattern by clicking on the
New button in the dialog and select it by clicking on the Set Active button.
Working with a created pattern is no different than working with a default
pattern (see steps 15). Keep in mind, however, that only one pattern may be
active at a time.
2. If you’ve created several patterns for the same batch, the last created pattern
will be active. The status bar displays the active pattern. To activate another
pattern, select the desired pattern from the pattern list in the Pattern Editor
dialog (Tools>Pattern Editor menu) and click Set Active. Next, click on
Use user pattern on the Recognition tab, Tools>Options menu, in the
Training group.
3. If the Use builtin patterns option is set, ABBYY FineReader will recognize
all texts using its builtin patterns and stop only at uncertain characters. If you
are training the system to read decorative and/or nonstandard fonts (for
example, Tibetan) the use of inbuilt patterns may result in characters being
read incorrectly. To avoid this problem, disable the use of builtin patterns
(clear the Use builtin patterns checkbox on the Recognition tab) and
train the system to recognize each unknown character.
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